Slipshod statistical analysis. Pappy Bush (CINO) lost. Dole (CINO) lost. McCain (CINO) lost. Romney (CINO) lost. Dubya is, demonstrably, the aberration; not the rule.
Who do you believe would have been a candidate who could have been victorious over Obama?
Any reasonably eloquent fiscal and social conservative -- with a genuine record OF conservatism in governance -- would have accomplished Step One out of Baby's Big Book of Basic Electoral Politics, if nothing else: "Start By SECURING Your Base, Not DEPRESSING Your Base."
Which is, inarguably, considerably more than Mittens managed to do, given six full years and a hundred million dollars or so.
(... and, again, the correct question to be asked here is: "Why, given the humiliating record of crushing electoral futility highlighted above, does the GOP mulishly insist upon doing precisely the opposite -- ?!?")
Based on what?
Asked and answered. See above.
He won once.
Any reasonably eloquent fiscal and social conservative
Do they have names or are they figments of your imagination?
Slipshod statistical analysis. Pappy Bush (CINO) lost. Dole (CINO) lost. McCain (CINO) lost. Romney (CINO) lost. Dubya is, demonstrably, the aberration; not the rule.
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Bush 2 the compassionate conservative is also not a very healthy exception. The thinnes ot wins the second time around, and one whose policies led to the routs of ‘06 and ‘08. Now people quake over the excessive police state powers of DHS, TSA, etc. Who started that pray tell? Bush 2 had a conservative veneer and jargon, but the same globalist, big government core as his father.